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9 Reception Amnesty International has said that some legal provisions of the Singapore system conflict with the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty" the government has disputed Amnesty's claims stating that their "position on abolition of the death penalty is by no means uncontested internationally" and that the Report contains "grave errors of facts and misrepresentations". Singapore's judicial system is considered one of the most reliable in Asia. After the Japanese surrender to the Allies on 15 August 1945 Singapore fell into a brief state of violence and disorder; looting and revenge-killing were widespread British troops led by Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia Command returned to Singapore to receive formal surrender of the Japanese forces in the region from General Itagaki Seishiro on behalf of General Hisaichi Terauchi on 12 September 1945 and a British Military Administration was formed to govern the island until March 1946 Much of the infrastructure had been destroyed during the war including harbour facilities at the Port of Singapore There was also a shortage of food leading to malnutrition disease and rampant crime and violence High food prices unemployment and workers' discontent culminated into a series of strikes in 1947 causing massive stoppages in public transport and other services By late 1947 the economy began to recover facilitated by a growing demand for tin and rubber around the world but it would take several more years before the economy returned to pre-war levels. A multilingual warning sign in Singapore's four official languages: English Chinese Tamil Malay Papyri PCZ I 59021 (c.259/8 BC) shows the occurrences of exchange of coinage in Ancient Egypt.

3.4 Trishaws Main article: History of Singapore S$10,714 US$11.899! Raffles' landing and arrival 1.2 Struggles to form a centralized army Post-separation 3.1.2 Price level targeting 7 Issues In 1998 Singapore began new negotiations with Malaysia to extend its water agreements beyond 2011 and 2061 respectively In return Malaysia initially asked to increase the raw water price to 60 sen per 1,000 imperial gallons (4,500 L) corresponding to 4 US cents per cubic meter. This price was still much lower than the cost of desalinated seawater or of NEWater However in 2002 Malaysia asked for a much higher price of 6.4 Malaysian Ringgit per 1,000 imperial gallons (4,500 L) (US$0.45 per cubic meter) arguing that Hong Kong paid the equivalent of 8 Malaysian Ringgit per 1,000 imperial gallons (4,500 L) for water from China. Main articles: Dance in Singapore Singaporean literature and Music of Singapore.